Parent (Bleep)ing Mad Over Homework With Bad Words

Ditto. But, now we see the mentality that resulted in these books being banned at one point in history. . .

People like you contribute to the negative society we have. How many generations will it take to rid ourselves of these bad words? Racist rude people will continue to have children and teach them how to be rude and rasict. It's always the N word, never the Honk word, Peck.... word, Red.... word, Pale .... word or White ..... word.
I try my best to never swear around my children and would never used negative words to discribe a different race.

What the #$&@?

holy crap get over it, bad words do not contribute to a negative society at all and its not like teachers are going around telling kids to say the words they are reading they are just showing examples of why the books have been banned and most of the books should not be banned most of them are classic books that i think everyone should read

(Bleeped-off) Dad. And have you listened to the rap lyrics that your kid listens to happily, 23 hours of the day on his CD player? You might consider bringing your battle a little closer to to home.

All words are important and the ones the cause the most offence are often that way because they move us to great emotion. Once the emotion is brought to the surface we have the choice to talk about it or fight about it. Talking about them brings resolution, fighting about them brings more emotion but hiding the words from our youth only prevents them from learning the lessons of our past and neuters the effectiveness of the teaching profession.

I do think that grade seven is a bit too young for a teacher to explicitly point out all the expletives in famous books, though I should expect this at the high school level.

Having said that, I must admit that as a child I always had a book in my hand and was an inveterate reader of all my mother's Book of the Month Club books. By the time I was twelve I had read every racey novel by every famous author known. I was about ten when I read "Ship of Fools" and "Leave Her to Heaven," for instance. Yes, I did understand them, but they never affected my morals. In fact, I learned lesssons of how NOT to act or to think from reading those novels. They also taught me how to distinguish between fabulously good writing from cheap trash.

I feel fortunate that I had a Mom who let me read those books for myself. She never said a word or criticized me for reading any of her "infamous" novels.

Quote from daddy~"words that start with the letter 'F' and are four letters in duration and that words that start with letter 'N' and are six letters in duration are inappropriate," Cella tells the newspaper.
so..Four, Flop, Free, Fear,Fine,Navajo, Nuance, Nipple, Nanny, Notice...better stop me, apparently I know a LOT of inappropriate words :/ I have cursed in front of my kids. The sky is not falling!! I have taught my children that these words are adult language, not for children to repeat. I am not so dense as to think that even if I never cursed in front of my children, that they would not be exposed to these words outside my home, even repeat them. The best that I can do is to teach them to be good people and give them the tools to deal with these things. Hold the school responsible when they actually do something wrong, this is just silly.

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Guess I shouldn't have read Gone With the Wind when I was in 7th grade; it really corrupted me. If these outraged parents don't want their children to hear bad words, then they'd better go live in a cave and never come out. These parents may not use certain words in their home but their kids have all heard the words before. One of my son's was in 1st grade and he can home from school with a new word added to his vocabulary that blew me away "c---s--k-r". 7th graders are far from innocent, especially these days. I don't see why using passages from great literature to examine censorship would upset anyone. On censorship, in 7th grade my mom caught me reading Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk (author also of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny). It was on the Legion of Decency's banned book list at the time. I'd checked it out of the library and only had about 25 pages left to read when she confiscated it.One time when home from college, I saw my mother watching the movie made from the book on TV and turned off the set. She made me turn it back on as she didn't appreciate my protecting her morals as she protected mine years ago.

People like you contribute to the negative society we have. How many generations will it take to rid ourselves of these bad words? Racist rude people will continue to have children and teach them how to be rude and rasict. It's always the N word, never the Honk word, Peck.... word, Red.... word, Pale .... word or White ..... word.
I try my best to never swear around my children and would never used negative words to discribe a different race.

Exactly. I'm 48 and one of my favorite lines from Benny and Joon is " Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?" I can only imagine that most have no clue that it refers to To Kill a Mockingbird. We as parents will always have to decide whether to hide our heads in the sand and tell our children that life is perfect and people are perfect, or we can allow them to learn that there are reasons we do not use certain words and allow them to read the books and see the class of people the characters using those words portray. They have heard the words, they need to hear why we disapprove of them and why they should strive to be better. What better, healthier way to do it than through good literature that portrays segments of our past and different lifestyles. And personally I think there is more to be learned from some of the old literature than there is from books that deal only with pop culture.

Speaking of....these are the same parents who want their kids reading Shakespeare in elementary school because none of them understand he's a bawdy old pervert. Love his plays, but I still can't believe no one gets up in arms with their kids reading about sex.

Not that they'd ever realize because what parent actually takes the time to read the books they want banned or, for that matter, any other books on their kid's reading list?